1) The Bible
does not specifically address the question of life on other planets. But
the Scriptures do tell us enough for us to come up with a solid and sound answer.

2) It is an
indisputable Biblical fact that out of all the planets in the universe, the
earth is given preeminence and priority. The earth was created first
(on Day 1 of the Creation week, Genesis 1:1-2), and contrary to evolutionary theory the earth
existed before the sun, moon and stars which were all created on Day 4 of the Creation
week (Genesis 1:14-19). To the unbiased reader, this indicates that there was
something very special about the earth.

3)
God tells us why He formed the earth. He formed it for a purpose:
"For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth
and made it; He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD,
and there is none else" (Isaiah 45:18). "The heaven, even the
heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath He given to the children of men"
(Psalm 115:16). The Bible clearly teaches
that the earth was formed to be inhabited by people and other living creatures.
The earth, sea and skies are teeming with life!

4) The only life
recognized in the Scriptures is human life, plant life, animal life and angelic life
(which would include the holy angels and the fallen angels or demons). There is no mention of extraterrestrial life beyond these
categories.

There has been a debate as to whether plants are technically alive in the
full Biblical sense. Consider the following from an article on the Creation
Ministries International website: We have long
pointed out that biblical ‘death’ can only apply to those things that were
alive in the first place! As far as the Bible is concerned, plants are not
‘alive.’ In the Old Testament, vertebrate animals are described by the
Hebrew phrase nephesh chayyāh
(נפשׁ חיה), translated as “living creature”, or in the case of man, “living
soul” (2:7). But it’s notable that plants are never described this way. And
they don’t die but “wither” (Psalm37:2).
Instead, plants are God’s self-replicating solar-powered food factories,
which also act as solar energy concentrators. See http://creation.com/r-c-sproul-jr-plant-death

5) God tells us why He made the heavenly bodies: "Let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so"
(Genesis 1:14-15). All of this is for the advantage of those
dwelling on the earth. Nowhere in these verses does it state that the
purpose of the heavenly bodies was to provide a home for extraterrestrial life.
Instead, the heavenly bodies were created to serve useful functions for those
living on earth.

6) Why do
so many people believe in life on other planets? It is mainly because they
have been heavily influenced by evolutionary theory. Evolution suggests that if
life evolved on our planet, then life certainly could evolve elsewhere in our
universe. There must be an innumerable number of planets in the universe, and among these
there must be many that have conditions favorable to life, conditions similar to
what is found on planet earth. According to evolutionary theory,
if conditions are favorable for life, then life will spring forth (almost of
necessity!). Life
will evolve from nonlife. Life will spontaneously generate from lifeless
chemicals by chance. And even though the odds against it happening
are great, yet it will happen anyway, just like it happened on earth.
According to evolutionary thinking, even
though it is very unlikely and nearly impossible that life can come from
nonlife, yet if you have enough time (billions of years), then anything is
possible. Blind chance + time + favorable conditions = LIFE. According to evolutionary
theory, a creation is not needed. All you need is time and unguided
natural processes and favorable conditions, and life will automatically evolve
from nonlife. It will just happen! With enough time and with
enough luck anything can happen!

Not too many centuries
ago people believed in spontaneous generation. Typically, the idea
was that certain life forms such as fleas could arise from inanimate matter such
as dust, or that maggots could arise from dead flesh. This erroneous notion was
put to rest by the experiments of Louis Pasteur in 1862. However,
evolutionists still teach that life originally came from nonlife. How life
could originate from nonlife is
one of the biggest problems facing the evolutionists because there is no
evidence that this has ever happened or that it could happen. Some
evolutionists, including Richard Dawkins (as documented in the film Expelled)
have even suggested that life may have been seeded on earth by aliens. In
similar fashion, in 1973 the late Nobel prize winning British molecular
biologist, physicist and neuroscientist Professor Francis Crick, along with
British chemist Leslie Orgel, proposed the theory of directed panspermia
[the intentional spreading of the seeds of life to other planets by an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization]. But what Dawkins and Crick never
answer is where these aliens originated from. They just push the
problem further back.

The Creation model
recognizes that life can only come from life, and that the origin of life cannot
be explained by natural processes, but can only be explained by Creation.
In other words, there is life on planet Earth only because the first life forms
were created by an Almighty Creator. According to the Creation model, favorable conditions on a
distant planet are not enough. In order to have life on any planet, that
life must be created. Life doesn't just happen and life does not come
from nonlife. Only God can create life. Life does not
arise from nonliving material. Cellular life can only originate by way of
creation.

John G. Hartnett explains the problem facing
evolutionists: "The probability of life arising by chance from a pile of
chemicals has been calculated by various people as an impossibility even given
all the atoms in the known universe representing experiments over the alleged
13.8 billion years since the supposed big bang. Even if you shuffled all those
atoms, or even started with them in the form of the required biomolecules and
randomly shuffled them you would not get life. Many researchers have admitted
the problem. Life could only arise through a super-intelligence creating it; it
would not ‘evolve’ anywhere" [Life on Earth 2.0—Really?, article found on
creation.com website]

If there is life on
other planets, then that life is there only because of creation, not evolution.
However, there is no indication from the Scriptures or from empirical
observation that such life exists elsewhere in our universe. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is the collective name for
scientific activities undertaken to search for intelligent extraterrestrial
life. For example, electromagnetic radiation is monitored for signs of
transmissions from civilizations living on other worlds.
Scientific investigation of this potential phenomenon began shortly after the
advent of radio in the early 1900s. Focused international efforts to answer a
variety of scientific questions have been going on since the 1980s. More
recently, Stephen Hawking, British physicist, and Yuri Milner, Russian
billionaire, along with the SETI Institute, announced a well-funded effort,
called the Breakthrough Initiatives, to expand efforts to search for
extraterrestrial life. All of these efforts have been in vain.
No evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found.

7) People also believe in life on
other planets because the media has predisposed America and the world to this
belief. For more than fifty years we have been saturated with movies and
television programs which feature aliens. These have been a major part of
America's entertainment diet. Here are just some of the movies and
television shows which feature extraterrestrial life: 2001: A Space
Odyssey, The Abyss, Alien Abduction, The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters of
the Third Kind, Cowboys & Aliens, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Independence Day,
Lost in Space, all the Superman movies and TV shows, Men in
Black, all the Star Trek movies and TV shows, all the Star Wars
movies, The War of the Worlds, The X Files, etc. For a
more complete listing see

The viewing audience would recognize any of these
movies as fictional. However, most would say that these movies are based on
reality, and that reality is that somewhere out there are intelligent life forms
on other planets. And even though we have never encountered such
creatures, most believe that they are there and that it's only a matter of time
before we meet them and hopefully they will be friendly!

8) Another major influence in the
development of an extraterrestrial mindset are the numerous accounts of UFO
sightings and even UFO abductions. Yet to date there has never been any
sighting or abduction which has been so well documented (by photos, eyewitnesses, physical
evidence, etc.) as to convince everyone. No one doubts that the Titanic
sank in the Atlantic or that the terrorist
attack on 9/11 took place because the evidence is indisputable. UFO
believers have never been able to produce this kind of indisputable evidence.

Creation Ministries International has a wealth of
material answering almost every question about UFO's. The following link is a good place to
start:

9) After this age has run its course,
the next age, the Kingdom Age will be ushered in. Scores of Bible passages make
it very clear that the Messiah, Jesus Christ the Son of God, will be the exalted
King during that time, and will reign from His Davidic throne in Jerusalem
(Isaiah 2:1-4; Isaiah 9:6-7; Jeremiah 2:15-16; Luke 1:31-33). His reign will be on this earth, and not on any other planet.
During the Kingdom Age, the earth is given preeminence and priority, and there
is not the slightest hint that any other planet or any other intelligent life
forms are involved.

10) The total destruction of the earth
and the universe is predicted in the Scriptures in such passages as 2 Peter
chapter 3, Matthew 24:35 and Revelation 20:11. In these end-of-the-world prophesies, the earth is given preeminence and priority.
It is the earth that "shall be burned up" (2 Peter 3:10) in a cataclysmic
destruction by fire. The universe also will be destroyed, (2 Peter 3:10-12;
Matthew 24:35; Revelation 20:11), but no other planets are mentioned or singled
out by name, just the earth. This destruction will be followed by the creation of the
new heavens and the new earth, a new universe uniquely prepared for eternity
(Revelation 21:1; 2 Peter 3:13). Again, the earth plays a major role in
God's prophetic drama, and no other planets are mentioned.

Dear Friend,

The Creator of this
universe, the Almighty One, paid a visit to this planet two thousand
years ago. "But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth
His Son" (Galatians 4:4). "The Word became flesh and dwelt among
us" (John 1:14). "And we have seen and do testify that the Father
sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world" (1 John 4:14). "This
is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy 1:15). This
is the visit from outer space that we need to concern ourselves with.

Jesus Christ died
on the cross and paid the penalty for our sins. "For Christ also
hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust (the Righteous One
for the unrighteous ones), that He might bring us to God" (1 Peter
3:18).
And after His victorious and finished work on the cross He rose again
from the dead and "passed into the heavens" (Hebrews 4:14).
The tragedy is that so many people believe in aliens but they don't believe
in the Son of God who came to bring them salvation and eternal life:
"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that
hath not the Son of God hath not life" (1 John 5:11-12).
Choose life today! "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).